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Dogs have owners, cats have staff

KMCI is running a .4 barker channel announcing the need to rescan as of this Monday, 2/11 at 10 AM. The message states they will be operating at reduced power while they make transmitter modifications. They will return to full power in April.

SatelliteGuys Master

The reason that tuners make for poor signal level measuring devices is that they have electronics in them that optimize the signal level (AGC) for the tuner's purposes. Only when the signal falls below the tuner's ability to compensate for low levels will you see much of a drop.

Dogs have owners, cats have staff

The reason that tuners make for poor signal level measuring devices is that they have electronics in them that optimize the signal level (AGC) for the tuner's purposes. Only when the signal falls below the tuner's ability to compensate for low levels will you see much of a drop.

SatelliteGuys Master

The magic of subchannels is that, by definition, they follow the main channel. If you tune one, you've pretty much tuned them all. The channel numbers are uniquely a matter of the PSIP data and have no necessary relation to the RF channel.

Cable TV has been translating for years and that's why you might see OTA channel 2 on cable channel 702 on cable (my local Comcast puts all the OTA main feeds at 700+channel -- I don't know what they do if there are multiple HD channels).

Fortunately, this is an OTA forum and we don't have to concern ourselves with the vagaries of cable TV.

SatelliteGuys Pro

SatelliteGuys Family

The magic of subchannels is that, by definition, they follow the main channel. If you tune one, you've pretty much tuned them all. The channel numbers are uniquely a matter of the PSIP data and have no necessary relation to the RF channel.

Cable TV has been translating for years and that's why you might see OTA channel 2 on cable channel 702 on cable (my local Comcast puts all the OTA main feeds at 700+channel -- I don't know what they do if there are multiple HD channels).

Fortunately, this is an OTA forum and we don't have to concern ourselves with the vagaries of cable TV.